Carla feeds her 3 chicks at the Cathedral of Learning nest, 26 April 2026, 1:51pm (snapshot from the National Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh)

27 April 2026

UPDATE 26 April afternoon: The 4th (last) egg hatched at 1:05pm today.

Every day is pretty much the same for the three chicks at the Pitt peregrine nest: eat and sleep. While they sleep we can’t see them because their mother Carla broods them. However, they were visible yesterday at 1:51pm as they nodded off waiting for a long feeding session to begin.

3 chicks waiting for food to arrive, 26 April 2026, 1:51pm (snapshot from the National Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh)

The session lasted 16 minutes; I’ve edited it down to 6 minutes. Who’s on camera?

• Carla shelters the chicks and hears Ecco wail to say “Food’s here!” She leaves to get it.
• The chicks nod off while they wait.
• Carla returns and feeds them, then she takes out the garbage.
• Ecco arrives (without food) to shelter the chicks. He cleans some food off the beak of one of the chicks. Then he shelters them.
• Carla returns, Ecco leaves.

That was just one feeding. As you can see from this timelapse there were at least 2 others in 8 hours.

Watch this peregrine family on the National Aviary falconcam at the University of Pittsburgh.